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The official Leave campaign website has been recreated after it was changed to display a "Thank You" message over the weekend.

A Remain voter who claims that the update was an attempt to hide Vote Leave campaign promises has recreated the site, saying it will hold Brexiteers to account.

"They are under the spotlight now, so it's easier to just wipe the information and claim ignorance," said the person who recreated the vote Leave site, a web and brand designer who chose to remain anonymous.

"It's possible they could think that it's not relevant anymore, so why keep it up - but if that's the case, then there shouldn't be any problem with keeping the version that we've put up."

Since the site was recreated it appears that some information has been re-added. However there is still information missing from "The Campaign" and "Why I am Vote Leave" sections of the official web page.

Nigel Farage celebrates the EU Referendum resultCredit:
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Leave updated its site as prominent Brexiteers backpedalled on a number of pre-ballot claims, most notably that the £350 million a week spent on the European Union would go to the NHS.

Before the site was updated, the homepage led with a video of David Cameron and messages such as, "We should stop sending £350 million per week to unelected politicians in Brussels, and spend our money on our priorities, like the NHS".

"We should preserve the information that led to this so that people can see, and we hopefully learn from our mistakes," said the re-creator. "There is nowhere to hide on the internet - you publish information and you have to stand by it or admit you were wrong."

The web-savvy Remain voter used screenshots taken of the Leave site before the referendum and information on an internet archive for the recreation.

There were over 1.5 million visits to the Vote Leave site in the three months leading up to the vote, compared with 1.4 million to Stronger In, according to analysts Similar Web.